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  • Feeding tuna at the cages off Port Lincoln, Australia
    Photo courtesy of Kino Lorber
  • Tuna Nigiri Sushi as served by Master Sushi Chef Sugiyama in Tokyo
    Sushi: The Global Catch
  • Activity at Tsukiji Market, Tokyo
    Photo courtesy of Kino Lorber

  • Pierson created one of the all time great movie lines in the 1967 movie CoolHand Luke, starring Paul Newman.
    Courtesy photo
  • Frank Pierson
  • Pierson won an Oscar for scripting Dog Day Afternoon.
  • This year Pierson was consulting producer for 25 episodes of Mad Men. He alsoco-wrote an episode, “Signal 30,” with Matthew Weiner, the series creator.
  • Only two years ago, at 85, Pierson was consulting producer for The Good Wife. (Ascene from the show features Julianna Marguiles and Michael J. Fox
  • Pierson was loyal to the Austin Film Festival.

  • Native Houstonian Dennis Quaid, a bona fide movie star with at least 65 filmsunder his belt, is now getting set to star in a new TV series this fall calledVegas on CBS.
    Vegas/YouTube
  • Wes Anderson's latest film, Moonrise Kingdom, opened the most famous andprestigious of all film festivals in the world, Cannes.
    FocusFeatures.com
  • Next up for Kyle Chandler is a big screen role in The Wolf of Wall Street. Hischaracter will be a far cry from downhome Coach Taylor.
    Photo via Kyle Chandler Central

  • The Astrodome
  • Who would have imagined that the Astrodome's wonder-filled start would lead tothis?